Bitski
Pitched as the Shopify for NFTs; its wallets were phased out after a sale
A San Francisco startup that sold NFT storefronts, a credit-card-friendly consumer wallet and developer tools to brands, creators and games, later focused on embedded wallets.
- Capital raised (announced)
- Estimated
Recorded announced backing; this is separate from cash received, customer deposits and money recovered.
Funding
| Round | Date | Announced | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2019 | ||
| Series A | 2021 |
Announced is what was said at the time. Cash actually received is rarely disclosed and is not assumed to match.
People
| Name | Role | Period | Now | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donnie Dinch | — | VP of Strategy at Phantom | Oct 2026 | |
| Julian Tescher | — | Vice president of engineering at Phantom | Oct 2026 | |
| Patrick Tescher | — | Architecture, @phantom | Oct 2026 |
Timeline
November 2019
At the time the company was building a crypto wallet that could be embedded in other applications, such as games.
6 May 2021
By then the company had moved toward NFTs, selling storefronts on monthly plans from $99 to $1,499 and running drops for brands including Adidas and WWE.
21 May 2024
Phantom said Bitski's existing products would be sunset in the coming months and that users would be notified along the way.
14 June 2024
The notice came from The Sandbox, a game that supported Bitski wallets.
1 July 2024
How it ended
Acquired
Bitski was sold to the wallet company Phantom, which said Bitski's existing products would be sunset as its team moved over. Wallet holders were told to export their keys to another provider before the service was phased out.
What happened next
- Acquisition21 May 2024
Bitski's employees, including its co-founders, moved to Phantom to work on embedded wallets for Solana; one report said the move doubled Phantom's team. Terms were not disclosed.
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Sources
15 sources behind this page.
- 1Investing in Bitski · Andreessen Horowitz (lead investor) · May 2021
- 2Solana Wallet Phantom Acquires Bitski · Bankless · May 2024
- 3Jay-Z, A16z Back $19M Funding Round for NFT Platform Bitski · CoinDesk · May 2021
- 4Colosseum Codex: Crossroads Recap, Phantom Acquires Bitski, Metaplex MPL-404 · Colosseum · May 2024
- 5Crypto Wallet Phantom Unveils Stablecoin and Payments Service · Decrypt · Sep 2025
- 6NFT firm Bitski raises $19 million led by Andreessen Horowitz · Ledger Insights · May 2021
- 7Jay-Z, Troy Carter and Andreessen Horowitz join $19m funding round for NFT marketplace Bitski · Music Business Worldwide · May 2021
- 8Phantom Acquires Bitski, Brings Embedded Wallets to Solana · NFT Plazas
- 9About Phantom · Phantom
- 10Phantom acquires Bitski to accelerate crypto adoption · Phantom (the acquirer) · May 2024
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- 11FAQs: Wallet · The Sandbox (documentation for a game that supported Bitski wallets)
- 12The Sandbox on X: Bitski key-export deadline postponed to 8 August 2024 · The Sandbox on X (account id 347831597), retrieved via twitterapi.io · Jul 2024
- 13The Sandbox on X: notice to Bitski wallet users (export keys by 30 June 2024) · The Sandbox on X (account id 347831597), retrieved via twitterapi.io · Jun 2024
- 14X account lookup: @pat2man · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
- 15X search: @bitski posts mentioning @pat2man · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
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